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Re: Football Play Off = Big 10 Demise?

Good article. Exactly what I thought when I heard it announced. Don't know how Slive and Neinas/Bowlsby got the B1G and Pac-12 to agree to a non-championship play-off, but it will definitely work in the B12/SEC's favor if current trends continue.

Re: Football Play Off = Big 10 Demise?

Selection committee will have people from all regions/conferences and programs like Mich, Ohio St, Neb and Penn St will get the benefit of the doubt often. They are money makers. The Big 10 will be just fine. It's top team will be in the playoffs often.

Re: Football Play Off = Big 10 Demise?

Originally Posted by Senolcyc

Selection committee will have people from all regions/conferences and programs like Mich, Ohio St, Neb and Penn St will get the benefit of the doubt often. They are money makers. The Big 10 will be just fine. It's top team will be in the playoffs often.

43% of the time is often? I don't think this selection committee will be any MORE biased towards the B1G than the previous polls which helped shape the BCS rankings.

At least in previous years the B1G could still hang its hat on getting it's team into two BCS bowls by virtue of their TV presence and ticket sales. Getting shut out of the play-off year after year will be a major blow to their reputation.

Re: Football Play Off = Big 10 Demise?

The Big 10 will be just fine if they adjust to this. If they continue to act like the snobby rich kid who feels like everybody owes them the world and the way they do things should be the way everyone else does things, they will fall into downward spiral of constant mediocreness.

For what its worth, I feel like the Big Ten adding a 12th team and getting a conference championship game was a huge step forward for them.

Re: Football Play Off = Big 10 Demise?

Originally Posted by RayShimley

43% of the time is often? I don't think this selection committee will be any MORE biased towards the B1G than the previous polls which helped shape the BCS rankings.

At least in previous years the B1G could still hang its hat on getting it's team into two BCS bowls by virtue of their TV presence and ticket sales. Getting shut out of the play-off year after year will be a major blow to their reputation.

Selection committee will favor the Big Ten more than the BCS did, but not radically.

The BCS was 33% computers and the Big Ten teams were almost universally ranked higher by voter polls than computer formulas.

It's not a radical change, but selection committee is a moderate win for the Big Ten and a moderate lose for the Big 12. Just looking at how polls and computer polls almost always work out. If everyone gets on the same page with 8 or 9 conference games it'll be less of a change, but the human voter bias will always favor Big Ten somehow.

Re: Football Play Off = Big 10 Demise?

Selection committee will favor the Big Ten more than the BCS did, but not radically.

The BCS was 33% computers and the Big Ten teams were almost universally ranked higher by voter polls than computer formulas.

It's not a radical change, but selection committee is a moderate win for the Big Ten and a moderate lose for the Big 12. Just looking at how polls and computer polls almost always work out. If everyone gets on the same page with 8 or 9 conference games it'll be less of a change, but the human voter bias will always favor Big Ten somehow.

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